About the Author

David Donachie was born in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an
abiding interest in the naval history of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries as well as the Roman Republic, and, under the
pen-name of Jack Ludlow, has published a number of historical
adventure novels. David lives in Deal with his partner, the
novelist Sarah Grazebrook.

Reviews

High adventure and detection; cunningly spliced battle scenes which
reek of blood and brine, and excitements on terra firma to match. "